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Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

- Ground- and drone-based instrument and sensor development and deployment to quantify methane emissions from orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells in New Mexico

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Designed green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) and low impact development (LID) practices in Civil3D- Prepared plans, specifications, and cost estimate (PS&E) packages for public and private stormwater management facilities and/or site development civil engineering projects

New York, New York, United States

- Managed the NYC Energy Expense program to fund energy saving measures that reduce carbon emissions in all fourteen of the NYC Wastewater Treatment Plants. Granted over $1,000,000 in funding for energy saving projects across DEP. Collaborated with WWTP operations to implement projects in the field. Wrote invoices for consultants like the Energy and Carbon Neutrality Plan with AECOM for the NYC Climate Act. - Research and analysis of quantifying fugitive methane emissions coming from the WWTPs anaerobic digestion biogas and gas-to-grid programs. Collaborated with City University of New York and consultant ABB on a methane leak detection survey of WWTPs and implementing DEP's own leak detection program to reduce GHG emissions.- Wrote internal whitepapers on detecting fugitive methane emissions from WWTP and DEP climate change initiatives.

New York, New York, United States

Private math tutor for High School to Graduate School students.

New York, New York, United States

- Collaborated on real-time ground and airborne based measurements of methane and carbon dioxide surface-atmosphere gas exchange emissions in NYC using laser spectroscopy and commercial PurpleAir sensors- Lead research into metal speciation and composition of PM2.5 air pollution using synchrotron chemical analysis techniques. - Presented research to LDEO Colloquium, “Measuring Methane Emissions from NYC” April 2019- Completed Master’s thesis “Compositional and chemical variation of toxic iron minerals present in PM2.5 in the NYC region” May 2021

Carnation, Washington, United States

- Leadership Team member- Managed three camp sites with 12 camp counselors and up to 70 children at a time.- Directed the Camp Science themed week.- Provided parental client support with children to ensure positive camp experience.

Los Alamos, Nm

- Designed instrument sensors for 65 Tesla and 100 Tesla short-pulse magnets to measure the strain magnets undergo when fired to prevent catastrophic failures of the magnets

Los Alamos, New Mexico

- Designed and installed a cryogenic device to cool a sample of material to 4 Kelvin placed in a >200 Tesla semi-destructive magnet to study the effects of high magnetic fields on materials at low temperatures- Presented at the LANL Annual Student Symposium "Designing and Building a Cryogenic System for the Single Turn Project"- Featured on the Los Alamos National Laboratory Instagram campaign "Student Instagram Takeover" - Invited seminar speaker at the Gonzaga Physics Department "Designing and Building a Cryogenic System for the Single Turn Project"- Acknowledgment in a publication by Dr. Andrew Balk: A. L. Balk, I. Gilbert, R. Ivkov, J. Unguris, S. M. Stavis, 2019. Bubble Magnetometry of Nanoparticle Heterogeneity and Interaction. Physical Review Applied. Los Alamos, NM.

Seattle, Washington

- Led SDOT's Painted Intersection Program collaborating with community organizers to paint mural in neighborhood intersections- Designed and installed road signs including adding "Do Not Enter" and "Wrong Way" signs to a highway off-ramp in Downtown Seattle- Manufactured street signs in SDOT's Sign Shop.

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Summer intern in the Sign Shop manufacturing street signs.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Earth And Environmental Sciences

Activities and Societies: Dean's Fellow

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering

Minor in Physics Concentration in Environmental Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Civil Engineering

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